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General Information

This page is a gear reference for Havoc Demon Hunters. It lists your
best items and Legendaries, gives you gearing advice, and shows you how you will
be competing for loot with other classes.

The other pages of our Havoc Demon Hunter guide can be accessed
from the table of contents on the right.

About Our Author

This guide has been written by Wordup, a frequent theorycrafter involved in a number of class communities.
He is also an experienced player who has been in the world top 100 since the days of Sunwell, currently raiding
in Echoes. You can also follow him on Twitter.

1. Best in Slot List

Bear in mind that all of this is subject to change based on Warforging and
Titanforging happening on gear, so this is absolutely a guideline and not a rule.
Note that it is also just dealing with gear from raid environments, so this could
change if you are spending a large amount of time in Mythic+ and gaining different,
rarer pieces.

1.1. Trinkets

With the trinkets listed, this assumes that you are comparing against equal
item level pieces at Item Level 860, therefore in some cases due to the scaling
effect, this list can be inaccurate. Due to that, there is a simulation of all
trinkets against each other listed here:

Some small disclaimers are due here, bear in mind that Unstable Arcanocrystal
is from a world boss, so relies on very high titanforging to keep up with powerful
dungeon trinkets with high Item Level, or Mythic+ trinkets. This is why BiS
recommendations may differ from the average Simulation results.

Also note some Karazhan trinkets are not currently working yet within Sims,
and this will be updated ASAP with new changes to amend any new information.

1.2. Evaluating Upgrades with dynamic Item Levels

Due to the Warforging/Titanforging system, having a full comprehensive list of
gear ranked against each other would be far too elaborate and confusing to compile,
and as such it is recommended instead to evaluate upscaled items using rough stat
weights. As always with weights, they can change depending on your gear and to
get them perfectly accurate for your character, it is always advised to simulate
it yourself, however for the purpose of this I will use example Havoc stat weights:

These were calculated using the Advanced build, and 840 Pre-Raid gear:

Agility: 1

Critical Strike: 0.79

Versatility: 0.73

Haste: 0.7

Mastery: 0.58

If we then compare two pairs of boots, we can get a rough evaluation of which
to use. Starting with Stained Maggot Squishers, these come with
1287 Agility, 454 Haste, and 641 Mastery, so we can use this to calculate a
relative value:

454×0.7 + 641×0.58 + 1287×1 = 1976.58

Then comparing to Boots of Endless Betrayal, these come with 1287
Agility, 383 Critical Strike, and 712 Haste, which can be evaluated in a similar
way:

383×0.79 + 712×0.7 + 1287×1 = 2087.97

Through this we can see that the value of Boots of Endless Betrayal
is higher than Stained Maggot Squishers, and are the better choice to
use. As said though, these weights can differ depending on the content you are doing,
your talent selections, and the other gear you are currently wearing, as many
stats synergise with others and scale exponentially, increasing their value. This
is especially true for Havoc given that stats are so close in value.

2. Racial Bonuses

Unlike most classes, Demon Hunters do not get a choice in their Race outside
of Faction restrictions, and as such I do not feel Racial recommendations are
necessary.

3. Legendary Items

Legendary items have a high item level of 895, which makes them extremely
strong. They are so strong, in fact, that a legendary item is always going to
be worth equipping over any other item you might have in that slot.

However, there is a limitation on the number of legendary items you
can have equipped at any one time (by default 1, but by now most players should be able to equip 2). Since some legendary items are better than others, if you
have more items than the limit, you will have to choose which ones to equip.

Below, we will do our best to guide you through this process, as well as
provide any other relevant information.

Havoc legendaries are generally very specific to the situation or fight
archetype you want to enhance. There are purely Single Target, Cleave, and large
scale AoE choices, and as such making your choice if you have multiple items to
choose from is decided by that.

For AoE there are two options. The first of these is Loramus Thalipedes' Sacrifice,
further increasing the power of Fel Rush for each subsequent target you
charge through, though recent changes have diminished how powerful this is.
Alternatively, Raddon's Cascading Eyes increases the frequency
in which you can use Eye Beam, but the effect is very reliant on huge
groups of enemies to trigger its effect aggressively, and without that the item
can be somewhat lackluster.

Achor, the Eternal Hunger can provide a small increase to sustain adding
an additional healing bonus whilst Blur is active, but its applications
are limited.

Cinidaria, the Symbiote can be reduced down to a passive damage increase
averaging out at around 3% increase over the course of a fight. It has some
circumstances where bosses do not go through the entire Health pool (such as
Odyn or Helya) where it shines even brighter. Note that the bonus damage it deals,
whilst Physical, bypasses the targets armor and directly replicates 30% of the
damage the triggering attack dealt. Its benefit however is limited to the first
10% on targets, so in some fights it can be a very minimal bonus.

Sephuz's Secret has some fringe bonuses for extra mobility and an
extra Haste proc activating after crowd control effects, such as Chaos Nova,
unfortunately this requires targets that are frequently vulnerable to stuns. This
largely relegates the effect to dungeons.

Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus could have some powerful survivability
uses to survive large bursts of raid damage if it syncs up with the recharge
time and avoiding damage is possible, but it is too specific to recommend until
more is known about the texture of the upcoming raids.

For the rest of your equipment, you should look for upgrades that match
your stat priority. For that, we advise you to
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4. Loot Competition

Regarding the loot you will get from raid or dungeon bosses, you will
compete with other classes in the following cases: